Quarantine Wal-Mart.Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. ACORN and the Ruckus Society The Ruckus Society is an organization that sponsors skill-sharing and direct action training camps for activists from impacted communities working on social justice, human rights and environmental justice. teamed up to create a "Bureau of Worker Health" and confront senior staff of Wal-Mart at a meeting at a convention center in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). . The activist groups say that Wal-Mart's business model threatens the health and well-being of its workers and their families. On January 29, more than 100 people donned hazmat suits, dust masks, and rubber gloves rubber gloves rubber npl → gants mpl en caoutchouc . They wrapped the convention center in yellow caution tape and stuck "notice of quarantine" signs on the doors. For more information, go to www.quarantinewalmart.com. |
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